Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Sports Illustrated: Callahan a "Potentially Colossal Mistake" for Nebraska

SI's Stuart Mandel, in today's column, thinks that "(Bill) Callahan's hiring was a potentially colossal mistake". Mandel agrees that Nebraska's program needed some modernization. However, he also says that Frank Solich is showing just that at Ohio, and that Callahan's NFL credentials and NFL experience may be irrelevant in the college game.

Oh, and Steve Pederson's other 2 candidates (Dave Wannstedt and Houston Nutt) also get some negative attention in the 'ol mailbag.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think any person that understood coaching would know that two years of any level of head coach experience would not prepare you for the Nebraska experience. When it became clear that Frank was let go to glorify Steve Pedersons ego, Steve had to look like he had a plan, and Callahan had a Super Bowl loss on his resume. (How good was the AFC that year, and who on that team had career years that they have yet to repeat?)

Husker Mike said...

"Time will tell"? Yes it will.

As for "Your site sucks!": Thanks! Now crawl back and join the rest of the inbreds at HuskerPedia. Talk about lame; the best comment you could come up with was "you suck"???

Anonymous said...

Time will tell. If that is the arguement, then we should have given the coaching staff Frank assembled a chance. They took the same bunch of kids from 7-7 to 10-3, so apparently they could do something where Callahan just throws up his hands and says, "These aren't my recruits?!?".

Guess what, they weren't Barney Cotton's either and his offense looked better than Callahans. So I would say to someone who as artistic as "you suck", 3rd grade has an opening in the first row.

Anonymous said...

I usually look but don't touch, but it appears that the old saying still applies, "the truth hurts".

Between the arguements of "you suck" and the later, I wonder which one requires a deeper level of thinking? Easy answer, except if you're the "you suck" guy.

Anonymous said...

your site does suck

I agree with him

Anonymous said...

TERRIBLE

Anonymous said...

Frank Solich was the worst

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Husker Mike said...

Well, that Huskerpedia user finally learned he can repetitively post comments, so I had to shut off anonymous comments.

Husker Mike said...

Funny, but you have the same IP address as that HuskerPedia guy.

Adam said...

wtf Mike? You've got all the haters and kool aid drinkers all riled up!
This is hilarious!
Keep it coming...

Husker Mike said...

Not all of them, just one guy in Lincoln, apparantly with a lot of free time.

mattp_68135 said...

Yeah, Callahan went to the Super Bowl...and he hasn't won a game worth talking about since.

Even as a Husker fan, I can admit this program is in trouble.

I also believe that if NU has a weak record this year and Pederson schedules another D-II lightweight, we could see the sellout streak end early next season.